attempting to reset
taking off the tunnel vision, stepping back, and seeing things with a view of the past that spans more than 10 pages
Zik/Metal Sonic
- don't much like the secret alt thing, but that's neither here nor there. when it was unceremoniously revealed, he acted even more townie than before. the courage to maintain the same attitude of usefulness and consistent townieness while under pressure was pretty town. really* town actually. and then the reaction to it was really good as well. still my strongest town read.
Sleepy/Ranmaru
- sleepy was lame, but ranmaru is very present. very contentful. for all his hemming and hawing i'm not really seeing anything too amazingly intuitive jump out at me, but that's mostly because it's covered in thousands of words. and because he changes his mind a lot and i can't really take him seriously. but that's enough to very heartily town-bin him. the amount of effort he's putting in is heavily pro-town, and changing his mind a lot also feels townie to me.
Salamance/BBmolla
- bbmolla has actually redeemed this slot a looooot for me. i like the confidence in the posts and it reminds me of how i felt when i replaced into this game. i was significantly less overwhelmed. sal had a few townvibes and mostly only the lurking was bad for me. i didnt really feel like salamence was attempting to turn players against others either, and bbmolla's posts have been very... convincingly innocent-sounding. his lack of immediate agenda also feels quite town.
Nacho/Albert
- Albert is a huge reason for this spot's placement in order. His posts were good, his motivation was good, his pushes were good, and he was pretty town. I think i'm remembering that a little more rosily than i should, but i don't really care too much because i have decided to more or less trust that early read. another influencing factor is everyone else telling me "shut up that's not a scumtell" about Nacho's refusal to read albert's posts, which in hindsight is somewhat in line with something else i've seen him do as town. overall i don't have a super strong read on this spot but i feel it's pretty town.
Lambda
- she isn't down here just because other people are towning it up recently (most notably bbmolla/ranmaru), lambda is also just a lot less townie than she was before. i dont really see a concerted push to accomplish anything besides discussion, and despite her levels of snark and in-crowd-ness, it's more apathy-inducing than anything else for me. her less-than-polite debate with singer ended with her coming out of it looking crappier in my mind, not because of singer's points per se, but because of how she a) responded to them, or b) didn't. I didn't really get a good vibe from her through that, and she drops quite a few notches in my book.
Juls/singer
- juls seemed vaguely town. singer seems kinda the same way. i think her thoughts are pretty valid overall and come from a believably townie perspective, but i don't see much motivation to do useful things. i say useful things because there's very little popular support for a lambda wagon and that read/debate practically dominates my memory of her. i feel like that's the same with me in a sense, and even though the plum lynch was far from a lost cause on either day 1 or on early day 2, i feel like it's not The Thing To Do right now because nobody really wants to lynch that slot for some reason or another which is beyond me. meanwhile, singer's on the way up in my reads list.
Jazz
- idk what i think of this slot any more. has been towny and scummy in pretty equal measures. very much not a fan of her attitude. also very surprised that i let myself be so affected by someone else and make an ultimatum for her. her response felt town, but since then she's kinda floated off my radar as well as some other people.
Quaroath/Cabd
- quaroath was not the towniest, but i can't fault his replace out. he was kinda in my blind spot though which is a bad thing. cabd's replace in and immediate V/LA is also unfaultable, and jazz's implication that it's not is quite rude as he pointed out, but the AtE and defeatism upon his return, as well as the "prettiness" of his reads from before, AND the ample buddying with me, makes me suspicious. if his catchup isn't epic and/or insightful he's probably not moving from here.
VI
- an actual terrible person who's attempted just about everything from rancid hate speech to abusing mod powers to breaking site rules and really should be kicked out of the game (
@mod?
please. thanks). probably scum due to all reasons, before meltdown, and for pointing to it as a reason for town reading as well. very meta; very lazy. so overall, very scummy, very ugly behavior, and i feel gross even being in the same [virtual] room with this piece of work.
Plum/Kagami
- would happily hammer this nail with a lead brick of death, here but nobody else wants to consider it any more. except cabd. and that's not a ringing endorsement. beating this dead horse won't likely yield any new info but it's still rock-bottom on my scumreads.
these are vaguely in order from best to worst reads
would lynch any of the bottom four
: over half the players in this game are replacements, and 70% of those alive